St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-01
DOESN'T FAVOR TT.
The President Believed to be OBJ
posed to the Division Of the
Territory,
But Would Sign the Bill if the
People Voted for Two
States.
Gov. Church in Full Accord With
Mr.. Cleveland in This
Matter.
The Opposition of the National Indian
Association to the Dawes Bill
Very Effective.
Their Stand Taken After Course of Rea-
soning From Defective
Premises
Marshal Maratta Will Place His Resigna-
ton in the Presidents Hands in
February.
That Land Commissioner Sparks
Has Cleveland'S Ear.
pected to Run Against Impassa-
BILE Barriers.
Judge Church's Stand Against the
Gamblers Reported to Have Made
Him Friends.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Sit is said by his
friends, though they be few who can know
him intimately, that the president is opposed
to the division of Dakota, although willing
to grant division if the people should.vote
in favor of it. That is to say, if bill pro-
viding for the division of the territory
should reach him. after a vote was had by
the people, favoring division, he would
attach his signature. But he is
opposed to the idea of increasing
the number of states by the
further division of the territories. He is
reported to have said that it would be I'M
fortunate indeed should there be division
of territories in the West as there has been
in the East and South. He claims to have
high regard for the future empire beyond
the Mississippi, and hopes to see imperial
states erected there. Viewing the situation
thus, it is most likely that he would have
vetoed the Harrison bill, had it been pre-
sented to him for signature. 1t is true, as
has been asserted, that Gov. Church is
IN FULL ACCORD
with the president in this matter, as in all
others, and that nothing of his influence or
power can be expected to be used for the
benefit OF the ''we-are-a-state" people. Col.
Lamont says that the president has never
expressed any but the most kindly interest
in Dakota and her people, In reference to
the complaint that Dakota was not men-
toned in the presidents message, the
colonel says that it was not intended as
slight to the people of that vast domain, so
far as he knows, but probably because
the president deemed Ii wise and pru-
dent to make the omission. If
he had made reference and recon-
mendations upon the subject of division.
admission, opening of the reservation and
other topics of interestto the territory, he
might have done more harm than good.
Fault would have been found anyway. as
it is customary for each individual who
does not see the president riding
THE SAME HOBBY
as himself to complain and criticise. Had
the president taken up the Dakota question
and treated it eXhaustively he would have
to omit matters OF national importance, and
even then Dakota would have had
scores of critics. The people of other
localities, millions of them, might have
been dspleased with such localism. In
brief, it is considered rather small for the
partisans to make the president the scape-
goat of their follies and foibles. The hot.
heads and ire-eaters of the prairies are i'll
Iuring the empire in the estimation of con-
gress, and they are not elevating it in the
estimation of the president, who is in
clined, to do all that he may do in reason
for the welfare of Dakota and her people,